I have a signature that lists my kids and their ages, using lilypie. However, because of the character length allowed for the signature, I can't add another lilypie to my list. I would have liked to add another one, since I'm expecting. Does anybody know any good alternate way to do this, without adding length to the signature? I guess, if nothing else, I'll just have to ditch the cute little lilypie tickers and switch to a text signature that just gives their ages, and update them from time to time. I just think sometimes it's pertinent in stories how old the kids you mention are, etc., and that way I don't have to state them every time.

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Emily is 10 years old! 1/07Jenny is 8 years old! 10/08Charlotte is 7 years old! 8/10Megan is 4 years old! 10/12Lydia is 2 years old! 12/14Baby Charlie expected 9/17

I could be wrong on this, but i think there was a poster who recently had her fourth child and added another signature so there were two rows of two signatures. I think hers had pictures though, so they might be from elsewhere.

Is there any way to compress them? That is still a large signature line to scroll by when reading. I like the signature line and change mine often; but when the tracker bit or pictures are that big it can get cumbersome to read posts.

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Well, the problem wasn't the space issue, it was the number of characters you're allowed. I switched to the minitickers to make it less annoyingly long (better now?), but that doesn't actually allow me to keep all four plus the link to my blog, just because there are too many characters required to give the urls. I'm not sure if there's any way to fix that. I guess I'll have to give up my blog link for now.

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Emily is 10 years old! 1/07Jenny is 8 years old! 10/08Charlotte is 7 years old! 8/10Megan is 4 years old! 10/12Lydia is 2 years old! 12/14Baby Charlie expected 9/17

An excellent idea, but unfortunately it doesn't compress them enough. The urls themselves are a bit shorter, but the amount of UBB code required to get the links in there is a lot, and that's what takes up most of the space. I have *almost* enough characters but not quite. Ah, well.

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Emily is 10 years old! 1/07Jenny is 8 years old! 10/08Charlotte is 7 years old! 8/10Megan is 4 years old! 10/12Lydia is 2 years old! 12/14Baby Charlie expected 9/17

Is there any way to compress them? That is still a large signature line to scroll by when reading. I like the signature line and change mine often; but when the tracker bit or pictures are that big it can get cumbersome to read posts.

My solution to that is to disable sigs altogether. I frequently read from my phone, so it makes much easier to view without them.

This is what I did to help out with space for all four of my tickers and not have to use the mini-tickers. Instead of having the url link for each individual image, I used one URL link for the entire set of images.

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Is there any way to compress them? That is still a large signature line to scroll by when reading. I like the signature line and change mine often; but when the tracker bit or pictures are that big it can get cumbersome to read posts.

My solution to that is to disable sigs altogether. I frequently read from my phone, so it makes much easier to view without them.

Me too! Please keep in mind that not all posters will be able to read your signature to get ages. I turned them and avatars off years ago because they were distracting and took extra time to load.

Gorplady, thanks for that code! That could be really useful in the future!

For now, I switched to the mini versions, and they work great because all four fit in one line. So not only can I keep 4, but it compresses the length needed to scroll past. So they'll be perfect until/unless we end up having a 5th. Then I might need to use Gorplady's code and have a second line of them. But even two lines of them is less than having 3 or 4 lines, like I would have with the full-size tickers.

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Emily is 10 years old! 1/07Jenny is 8 years old! 10/08Charlotte is 7 years old! 8/10Megan is 4 years old! 10/12Lydia is 2 years old! 12/14Baby Charlie expected 9/17

This is what I did to help out with space for all four of my tickers and not have to use the mini-tickers. Instead of having the url link for each individual image, I used one URL link for the entire set of images.

Is there any way to compress them? That is still a large signature line to scroll by when reading. I like the signature line and change mine often; but when the tracker bit or pictures are that big it can get cumbersome to read posts.

My solution to that is to disable sigs altogether. I frequently read from my phone, so it makes much easier to view without them.

Can you tell me how to disable signatures? They are distracting and the ones that have motion or flashing really give me a headache.

Is there any way to compress them? That is still a large signature line to scroll by when reading. I like the signature line and change mine often; but when the tracker bit or pictures are that big it can get cumbersome to read posts.

My solution to that is to disable sigs altogether. I frequently read from my phone, so it makes much easier to view without them.

Can you tell me how to disable signatures? They are distracting and the ones that have motion or flashing really give me a headache.

Go into Profile - Look And Layout. There is a checkbox there that says 'Don't show signatures'.

I don't mind them myself, but I have a slow internet connection. It takes double the time to load a page with sigs.

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